Improvement in violins



MFEIERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D, C.

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MAURICE W. WHITE-OF BOSTON, MASSACIIUSETTS,` ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND EBENEZER P. CUTTER, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 109,696, dated November 29, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN VIOLINS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, MAUnLCn W. Wnrrn, ot' Bost-on, in the county ot' Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and uset'ul Improvement in Violins, of which the following, when taken `in connect-ion with the accompanying drawing, is a i'nll -objectbeing to strengthen and stiti'en the violin against the enormous strain or tension ot' the strings.

In the faccompanying drawing- Figurel is al1 inside View ot' the top or belly ot' a violin embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a view of my device placed upon the outsike of the said top of a violin.

Figure 3 is a sectional view ot' my invention when in the position shown in fig. 1.

Figure 4 is a cross sectional view ot' my invention placed as described in. Iig. 2.

ao; b b isamy device placed on the inside of a violin.

c c l (l is its appearance when placed upon the outside.

e shows the shape and appearance ot' the outside of the top or belly 01' a violin as usually constructed.

f shows thelshapc and appearance of the inside of the said topof a violin as usually constructed.

The dotted lines r/ show the situation oi the bassbars as commonly constructed.

7i h show thejlholes in thc top.

.7.: It show the positions ot' the blocks.

In lig. l my invention is shown by the elliptic bars c a and b b, running from the block 7: to the block 75 upon the inside ot' the belly of the violin.

lThese elliptic bars do notinterfere with the bassbar y, which remains in its usual place.

Iuiig. 2 my device is on the outside of the belly of the violin, and involves the same principle as shown in fig. 1, the only difference heilig that there ,is no concavity in the device shown in 1ig.2, it being, more properly, a solid ellipse extending from block to block.

This invention can be placed either upon the-belly or back of the instrument, outside oriu, and may consist in an extra piece or pieces glued or otherwise fastened upon the instrument, or it'may be formed in the material of the instrument itselt'and of the same piece.-

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 'l A violin or kindred instrument, having the elliptical bracing a b or its equivalent applied-in the inannernnd for the purposes hereinbeiore set forth.

MAURICE XVIIITE.

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HENRY W. WILLLvus. J. GREENE J oxus. 

